"Rough" Draft, and I Mean "Rough"

I just re-read the post below. It's amazing what a little time away from my writing does to how I read it. Good grief is it "rough." It sounded much better when I originally posted it. It moves very quickly and the language needs a lot of tweaking.

So, I'm now posting a fair warning: prepare for the messy to happen all over the place. Mostly, this is about the storyline first. Then the polishing will have to happen.

One thing I need to watch for, though, is that my writing tends to be very "character-driven." (This was noted to me by a friend a few years ago.) By that, I focus a lot on the characters and not much on the setting. I like dialogue a lot. I'll need to work on balancing out my work in this area. But, that probably won't happen much until the polishing phase.